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Why don't the variables print where I told them too?I wrote the following program to experiment with creating sounds using 3 notes of BEEP and having the ability to change the notes up or down one at a…
... BEEP and having the ability to change the notes up or ... I could see what variables got the best results so I ... all that changes is the first which prints up ... under the three I asked for! ... 'll see what happens, heres the listing.
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Grumpy old man commentJust when you thought the kids fake accents (you know the inflecting one) couldn't get worse I've recently noticed it has evolved. To explain, we…
... when you thought the kids fake accents (you know the inflecting one) couldn ... lack of confidence (cos all kids these days suffer stress and ... upped the lack of confidence by weakening the voice right at the ... little snot. :) That's better! Got that off my chest. -
Microphone Recommendation Plus Bonus Neighbour Drama VentI've got some awful neighbours who moved in in the new year. While there is quite a lot to list my main gripe is the woman verbally abuses her childr…
... 've got some awful neighbours who moved in in the new ... that loud.
The kids are a wreck and from ... of the police/ambulance carting off the bloke in the early ... the process of getting the relevant authorities involved (for the verbal abuse not the ... -
Name the Amiga Arkanoid cloneAbout 15 years ago I still had my A1200 working and I played an Arkanoid clone but I can't remember what it was called. I've looked on http://hol.ab…
... on all four sides of the screen. The bats were very slim ... can only think of the multiball one. The ball was also small ... wide.
I think the bricks faded and flashed when ... as it was before I got the BVision and BPPC cards. -
Edd Pratt is Unicycling the World.I thought I'd draw your attention to a young man from Dorset UK. I've been following. His name is Edd Prat he's now 21 and in 2015 he set of from ho…
... of from home to be the first man to unicycle around ... the world. He is also doing ... -Zealand and is now in the USA.. Edd is raising money ... , this crazy endeavor has not got the media attention it deserves. You ... -
Where's Mr Clowder when I need him?What happened to F-Clowder? I hope he's alright and hasn't had some setback keeping him away from here? He got me wound up to do graphics for a game…
... you must have been kids when the shows were first shown ... in terms of the capabilities of the available systems that ... much manipulation of the frame jogger control. The adjudicator got the impression I' ... of 50 degrees on the arm but the nose remains level. ... -
SubbuteoSo the other day i was browsing for kid stuff at the hipernarket where i normally go, in the toy section, when in the middle of the playmobil stuff w…
... for kid stuff at the hipernarket where i ... in the toy section, when in the middle of the playmobil ... from subbuteo for sale, the three main sides of ... know it was still around. Got me thinking.
the kids... What are ypur thoughts ... -
I've bought a Sony Minidisc deck in 2018 - For the Love of MinidiscsI've got a little HIFI obsession going at the moment, not only tape decks, but mini disk and vinyl. I recently brought a second Technics SL1200 becau…
I've got a little HIFI obsession going at the moment, not ... a cult following here. Consequently, the few high end models that ... up given the simplicity of the fix. I got the deck, fitted the belt (I ... being double thickness too. So the upgrade in build quality and ... -
'The computer game' vs 'The Videogame'This may sound absurd I know, but for me the two things didn't always mean the same (...but do they?) :P Maybe I am being a bit biased (I started …
... ) but when I got 'the computer game' version ... and felt - different from 'The Videogame' version. Why?
... adult oriented machine than the game console, for ... The Computer Game
- The Living Daylights - The Computer Game
- Spitting Image - The ... -
Gaming/BBC Computer Literacy Project - Archived on the beeb's website.Not sure if this has been mentioned here before, but I discovered this great Archive on the beeb's website. [url="https://computer-literacy-projec…
... discovered this great Archive on the beeb's website.
... I've been tinkering with the emulator, trouble was it ... tapes to load, but got the disk to load and ... />
Check out the late Paul Daniels and his ... , and Sir Clive with the new Spectrum 128, great ... -
What are the "lost" Ultimate arcade games?I've always been really curious to know what Ultimate did before they were Ultimate, and I've been having a little dig around. We know for sure t…
... 's very much got the look and feel of the games we know ... and definitely feels like the work of the same authors as Cash ... ] I thought [i]"that's got the Ashby Computers & Graphics vibe ... called Stamper. The RG feature also posits the notion that The Pit, which ... -
The Diagnostic PCBIt arrived in the post today so this is my first go with the Diagnostic PCB. (bought on Ebay) This item , I think , does the same job as Retroleu…
... This item , I think , does the same job as Retroleum Smart ... : everything was fine . The Smart Card went through the usual tests . So ... is to the rear of the rubber Key Spectrum but got black and ... fine . I tried again but got the Black and White vertical lines ... -
ZX stonedSo, my missus says that the kids have been painting stones to leave out on the streets around here (everyone is doing it, apparently) and says I've g…
So, my missus says that the kids have been painting stones to ... leave out on the streets around here (everyone is ... got about 20 mins to do one myself.
Cue the ... -
The Relationship Between "Manual Size" and Expectation of Business Success.This is about an idea or theory ( in other words a proposition or hypothesis) about Manual Size (Who has got the THICKEST?) Education was intitial…
... about Manual Size (Who has got the THICKEST?)
... manuals was initially produced by the like of Hill MacGibbon ... generally disappointing and the size of the game manuals in ... ! . So this "expectation" drove the approach to developing and including ... -
Who Has Got The Earliest ZX Spectrum Software?I think this has to be limited to 1982 . I think it will all be mostly16k or more precisely 16K/48K ( but you never know , maybe they "forward plan…
... 2" by Rose Software . On the cassette label it is written ... "Copywright 1982 Rose Software" and the inlay says "16K/48K SPECTRUM ... -
Happy Hallowheeen / All Souls DayHappy Halloween or All souls day if you like. Despite many towns not doing nout because of Covid (US towns typically make Halloween a downtown event…
... anyone goes mental.
The kids got so much candy, I can ... help think if all the kids at the event got that much candy (and ... my kids were not trying hard ... -
UDG creation? Back to the basics.I just discovered that I have a program called TILED in my download folder and it might be the very tool I need except that I dont think it can expor…
... folder and it might be the very tool I need ... dont think it can export the results as UDG's ... but alas I haven't got the quick wits that I once ... in "DUH!" mode and even the manuals seem harder to understand ... will get myself back into the swing of UDG creation if ... -
That Nostalgia ThangI was bored sitting waiting on a bus the other day and it was bucketing down with rain. As it does in gloomy situations like that, my mind started t…
... who were teenagers and kids at that time,me ... each!It was the closest we got to real arcade ... mame because now i got the real arcade games...flicky ... from that game,,and the real cartoon of dragons ... was around for the computer revolution,kids today...dont know ... -
How do you pronounce 'Speccy'?..since i've never heard the word spoken, just read it over here... I wonder if you guys read it as 'spexy' or rather as 'spetchi' or what else. eve…
muuaaaaahahahaha!!!!!!!!! this has got to be the most hilarious thread in a ... i moved to portugal and the kids there would try and pronounce ... all the spectrum commands. spectrum was " ... it. :p
by the way, name there was not ... -
Who want to remake Double Dragon?Seeing as the Speccy version was crap (see my review: [url="http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article=31"]http://www.gamestyle.net/retro.php?article…
... you've got penciled in to do the programming for ... emulation, anything other than the original is going to ... I and many other kids were falling over themselves ... now, when I've got the original to hand, another ... singers/Beatles songs. Who the hell are you thinking ... -
About buying Spectrum system for gaming. What kind of package?Hi, I've always been a C64 fan. No do not get me wrong, Spectrum was so rare here compared to Commodore. Lately I've been looking for Spectrum to pl…
... in Finland and most of the kids owned a Commode 64, so ... to the same level as what the Spectrum was when I got it ... , so that was not the problem anymore. The Spectrum ... had disappeared from the Finnish shops ... -
Beelzebub and other Spectrum owners...According to the site: [url="http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator"]http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator[/url] based on it's content, [url="http://www.…
Ive now got the Hardcore holocaust album (on nice ... decks, as im alone and the kids dont like to hear it ... /> ill have to dig out the genital deformities album, i have ... large punk tape collection under the bed i think :) -
Stoopid questions your girlfriend asksI can't be the only one here with a dopey partner. In her defence, she is quite young and only vaguely remembers the spectrum years. Here are the to…
... been married since 1999 - September the 11th to be precise.
Whenever the 'Two Towers - 9/11' thing ... by saying that it's the second worst disaster ever to ... happen on September the 11th. :)
Got 2 kids - wanted to name ... -
Stoopid questions your girlfriend asksI can't be the only one here with a dopey partner. In her defence, she is quite young and only vaguely remembers the spectrum years. Here are the to…
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Got 2 kids - wanted to name them PEEK and POKE, but couldn't get her to agree...[/quote]
You could have followed the trend in America and named them 2.0 and 2.1...
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Rarest GirlfriendI had one once that knew about cars (she was a mechanic). Another one I had could easily explain the off-side rule. Are these the rarest, or do you…
... a swap instead? I've got 3 kids in excellent condition. They ... in working order.
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Early Speccy Memories ThreadHiya. Right Ok. I want to start a thread going here and I want to know all about your early days with speccys. I am 31 now. I got involved with spec…
... had an amazing Xmas playing the Horace games, Chequered Flag, ... /> Then most of the kids in my school got Speccy's and we ... constantly going back through the old issues, and the Xmas specials kicked ... amazing.
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Text-based Adventure GamesI really got into these after playing "The Hobbit" on the Speccy. I really enjoyed the Level 9 games: Colossal Adventure, Adventure Quest, Dungeon …
... moon[/B] but never got too far with it ... />
now with the emulator i can play anyone ... , suppose it stopped copying at the time, though.
the pc now, imagine how ... />
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What hardware Sinclair and not related has everybody got?Just had to try to list all my clutter in the attic and my dads garage (this has got a bit out of hand), anybody else got as much Retro as this (boug…
... got the lot.
Lemmee see, in the cupboard here i've got ... :
pram
pushchair
ironing board + iron
kids ... toys
more kids toys
electric fan ... I don't live in the tardis and I had to ... -
Star Wars Trilogy DVDAmy got me this online while I was in Venice and it arrived yesterday. I've looked through bits of it, but have mainly watched the Special Features …
I've got the DVD set but its ... which was only available on the DVD set.
the deleted scenes though just stills ... .
Yeah the latest two films havent been ... kids now they seem to like the latest films judging by all the ... -
8 BIT WARSwhen 8bits ruled the home market Speccys, C64 and Amstrad were the big 3 fighting it out for supremecy.... but they didnt survive which as we know wa…
... read in the magazines)...
The only thing ... money, half payments to the catalogue when I was ... when I got mine I was lucky that the kids around ... t really know) got +2`s or the next year + ... never have gotten into the computay scene... a thought ...
